Improved anvil for forming horseshoe-calks



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Anvil for Forming Horseshoe Calks.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT sAYLoR AND ELI T. RHODES, OE MARSHALL, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVED AN'V'IL FOR FORMING- HORSESHOE-CALKS.

Specicatz'on forming part of Letters Patent No. 84,583, dated December 1, 1868.

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that we, ROBERT SAYLOR; and

ELI T. RHODES, both of the` city of Marshall,

in the county ot' Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improve ment in Supplementary Anvils for Forming and Sharpening Horseshoe-Calks 5 and we do herebyr declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description ot' the construction and mode of operati u g on the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 isa perspective view. side elevation.

Similar letters of reference indicate vlike parts in the two figures.

This invention relates to an improved arrangement in a supplementary anvil, to be placed, when required, in the socket of a comlnon anvil, i'or forming or sharpening the heel and toe calks of horseshoes, in a convenient and uniform. manner, as will be hereinafter fully shown and described.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and construct our invention, we will now, by the aid of the drawings and letters of reference thereto, proceed to describe it.

Our calk-forming anvil consists of a steel- Fig. 2 is a faced plate, A, having a standard, B, the lower.

face of the common anvil, and elevating the plate A above it a distance equal to the full length olthe largest-sized horseshoe.

The anvil-plate A should project on one side of its standard for the insertion ot' a hardy,

h, to cut oft' the calks to a proper length, and on the contiguous side it mustV project an inch or so to admit of the insertion ofthe heel-plates within a deepish vertical groove, e, which is sunk across the plate, and divides it into two distinct plates, connected by the standard, below the groove aforesaid, although, for convenience in description, we treat thenl as one continuous plate.

The steel-faced surfaces of these two sections of the plate A are not a level plane, but form two inclined planes descending toward the groove e, of such angle as will give the proper taper to the inner sides of the calks when the horseshoe is placed' within said groove, as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

The heel-calks are turned, and the toe-calks welded on, as usual. When the operator shapes and draws out the toe-calk with his hammer he places the heated shoe astride of the plate, and within the entire groove, as seen in Fig. 2; and to form the heel-calks he holds the shoe within that portion of the plate and groove projecting beyond the standard, as in Fig. 1; and when one is finished he reverses the position ofthe shoe in the groove and draws out the other calk. Should the plate itself not be sufficiently thick to maintain the shoe steady in shaping the heel-calks, as aforesaid, re-enforces may be forged on the standard at fi to deepen the side walls of the groove at the overhang, where it cuts through slotwise. horseshoes are usually thinner at the toe than at the heel, we find it best to contract the groove in width on the side ofthe plate opposite the projecting or heel-calk side, in order to accommodate this inequality of thickness in the shoe; but said groove should be wide enough anywhere to receive freely the largest shoe, they being kept steady by twisting or canting, as far as the freedom of space will permit, toward the side where the c alk is being forged on the plateA.

All smiths who make horseshoes have experienced the difficulty ot keeping a calk under the hammer on a co'mmon anvil, when slip .pery by the use of borax in'welding the toecalks; but all the calks in a shoe may, by the use of our supplementary anvil, be forged vWith great ease, rapidity, and uniformity of set and What we yclaim as our. invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is this:

The double-inclined anvil-plate A, having a transverse groove and slot, e, in combination with the standard B, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

ROBERT SAYLOR. ELI T. RHODES.

Witnesses HIRAM A. PETERMAN, GEORGE JOHNSON. 

